41.   In past years, PRI supporters often received money or aid in return for their vote, but recent reforms have made the once widespread practice less accepted.

42.   In past years, PRI supporters often received things in return for their vote, but recent reforms have made the once widespread practice less accepted.

43.   In talks with conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and Spanish businessmen, Jiang has boasted that free-market reforms have made his country attractive to foreign investors.

44.   It also says the reform will make way for overhauling the health and education sectors, currently short of money and suffering from political power struggles.

45.   Leonid Kozachenko said the previous agricultural reforms made it possible to consider the sector relatively stable over the past two years.

46.   Most importantly, his successful economic reforms made possible a relatively smooth merger between the communist mainland and capitalist territory.

47.   Other reforms will make life harder for the poor.

48.   Other reforms will make life more difficult for the poor.

49.   Other reforms would make it easier for workers to move around the EU seeking jobs, encourage women into the workplace and spread the use of the latest technologies.

50.   Preparing for the meeting of EU heads of government in Barcelona next Friday and Saturday, the ministers will consider planned reforms to make the European economy more competitive.